Budget in hand, Legislature adjournsThe last votes included the Senate's passage of a massive tax bill, and House approval of a measure to finance state government operations. Both were delayed by negotiations on a bonding bill.

What's cut, kept in divisive Legacy billThe $496 million Legacy bill lawmakers sent to Gov. Mark Dayton received the most 'no' votes ever recorded for spending through the amendment voters approved in 2008.

Search for tornado survivors nearly completeSearch-and-rescue crews worked through the night after a monstrous tornado barreled through the Oklahoma City suburbs, demolishing an elementary school and reducing homes to piles of splintered wood.

Interactive: Tornado hits Oklahoma City suburbsA monstrous tornado at least a half-mile wide roared through the Oklahoma City suburbs Monday, flattening entire neighborhoods and destroying an elementary school with a direct blow as children and teachers huddled against winds up to 200 mph. At least 51 people were killed, and officials said the death toll was expected to rise.

Moorhead may stop making sandbagsCity Manager Michael Redlinger said the city spent nearly half a million dollars preparing for potential flooding for this spring, and most of that was for 50,000 sandbags for some of the 87 homes still left on the Red River.

Toddler stabbed in Rochester has diedThree-year-old Xavier Njemanze had been undergoing therapy at Madonna Rehabilitation Hospital in Lincoln, Neb., for injuries he suffered when he was stabbed at his mother's home last winter.

Emerald Ash Borer Awareness Week beginsThe designation is part of a nationwide effort to raise awareness of the destructive nature of the tree pests, and to spread the word about the "three P's of EAB" -- Prepare, Protect, and Plant.